A Bit More Planning

 A note on versions

As the war progressed, while the organization might remain the same the equipment and especially tanks and tank-adjacent vehicles like the Panzerjägers and SUs  changed rapidly.  

That has two implications:

• Formations such as medium tank battalions will need versions by year.  The obvious Soviet case is the T34/76 vs 85.  For the Germans in 43 and 44 we have multiple PZIV versions, but also Panthers, Panzerjäger IV, and even Stug IIIs deployed as tank battalion equipment.  The  plan is to have at least one battalion or regiment in each option.
• Sometimes infantry stands will have figures carrying anachronistic equipment.  I intend to simply ignore it -- only some infantry heavy weapons have specific applicable use periods where the incorrect representation might be jarring.

Now on to the Germans

I am just looking at 1944 for now, since the organization did shift

• From a regular infantry division. Some elements such as the AT guns are motorized, but mostly the formation is leg and horse.
• Divisional troops
• A fusilier battalion (mounted on bicycles!)
  
  
  
• An antitank battalion
• An engineer battalion
• An infantry regiment
• Regimental troops
• 2 infantry battalions 
• Observers plus one direct support artillery battalion modelled.
• From a Panzer Division
• Division troops
  
• Antitank battalion -- probably using Marders
• Reconnaissance battalion -- a complex formation that will probably be completed incrementally.
• Engineer battalion
• Antiaircraft battalion
• Panzer Regiment
• regimental troops
• two panzer battalions.  This is where the variation comes, since both battalions may the the same type or different types.
• Panzer Grenadier Regiment (Gepanzert)
• Regimental troops
• Armored panzergrenadier battalion
• Motorized panzergrenadier battalion
• Artillery regiments
• Panzer artillery battalion (Wespes and Hummels)
• From a Luftwaffe field division. Much like the Heer infantry buy differences in detail and equipment.  And inferior training.
• Divisional troops
• A fusilier battalion (mounted on bicycles!)
• An antitank battalion
• An engineer battalion
• An infantry regiment
• Regimental troops
• 3 infantry battalions 
• Observers plus one direct support artillery battalion modelled.
• From a fallschirmjäger division, divisional kit and one 3 battalion regiments as above.
• From a Volksgrenadier division, shitty divisional kit and one regiments as above.
•  A schwere Panzerabteilung with Tigers

The next 3 have a lot to do with how many of the models I already have.  There actually might be multiple of each,

• A schwere Panzerabteilung with Tiger II
• A  Schwere Panzerjäger-Abteilungen with Nashorn
• Ditto with Elephant
• Ditto with  Jagdpanther

   I know that I am missing a lot there, but it is a framework to crack on from.  Next, the minor Axis on the eastern front.